Quotes About Learning

Becka said that writing was almost the same as that—each letter was like a picture or a row of stitching, and it was also like a musical note; you just had to learn how to form the letters, and then how to attach them together

Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it. The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time. You have to go slowly with them.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

We must continue to remind ourselves of the wrong turnings taken in the past so we do not repeat them.

His mother said that all children were arsonists at heart, and if not for the lighter he'd have used matches.

The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more and more, but not getting any happier.

Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

She's certainly old enough," said Aunt Vidala. "We have taught her all we can. If they stay in school too long, they become disruptive.

Let's pretend this, let's pretend that. They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn

Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

History isn't dry, it's sticky, it can get all over your hands.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light?

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

didn't plan to spend this amount of time these past weeks," Lynne said. "But I have learned a lot. I know my sheep and they know me, but this was a different kind of knowing. Because of what we've been through, there's a greater trust between Piaget and me than with the other sheep.

I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Okay," I say at last. "But you have to teach me how to do animals. I can't keep myself from wilting when I'm a plant, so I've been afraid to try a living form." She laughs and shifts into the shape of a large golden retriever and almost licks me to death before I can make her stop.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.